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Lee ([personal profile] atehimrightup) wrote2025-08-20 08:54 pm
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happy birthday, george

Lee has never put much stock into birthdays. His own never really mattered to him, because it never really mattered to anyone else. He would always try to get something for Kayla on her birthday, but that was about the extent of it.

All that is to say that Lee feels woefully prepared to plan a birthday for his-- whatever George is. Boyfriend? That feels so juvenile, like it isn't important enough.

He stresses about it more than he probably needs to, but he's never had the opportunity to celebrate something like this with someone he cares about. Which is already sort of a big deal, but George was the lover of a literal king and was undoubtedly showered with expensive gifts on a regular basis. Lee has no idea how to compete with that, even though he can hear George's voice in his head telling him that it isn't a competition. Which is good, because he'd probably lose.

The actual night isn't much of a problem. He comes up with a plan pretty easily, one that's simple but romantic, he thinks. It's the gift that's the problem. Because nothing in this whole goddamn city is good enough for George. Nothing that he can afford, anyway.

Just days before, he still hasn't found anything and he's getting sort of desperate. He distracts himself by going on a hunt because he really does need to eat, which sort of just makes him feel worse because of the guilt. But the guy is (was) a verified scumbag and women walking alone at night will be safer without him around, so he doesn't feel too bad.

In the guy's pocket is a receipt for a pawn shop that Lee has never heard of, so he goes to check it out the next day. It's in a terrible part of town and there isn't really even a sign. Inside it's dusty and unorganized and Lee just assumes it's some sort of front for something else. Still, he decides to look around while some guy comes out from the back and eyes him with wary suspicion, like he's surprised to see someone in the shop at all.

He finds a dusty jewelry display case and heads toward it hopefully, crouching down in front of it. Inside are mostly gold chains and tennis bracelets, all generic shit that wouldn't suit George at all, and he's about to give up when he spots a blue velvet box tucked back into a corner, half-hidden under a gaudy necklace. It looks like earrings and Lee rises to his feet and coolly asks to take a look at them, not wanting to show any excitement and inadvertently drive the price up. He knows how these places operate.

The guy takes them out of the case and Lee picks them up, doing his best to keep a placid expression even though he's pretty sure he just found what he's looking for. The box looks well-preserved but very old, as do the earrings themselves. He has no idea if the stones are real, but they look like it. There's a small piece of yellowed paper tucked inside, and when Lee discreetly unfolds it he finds elegant cursive scrawl and, most importantly, it's dated 1827. That confirms that they’re old, probably very old, and this guy doesn’t seem to really realize what he has. They're perfect.

Lee is prepared to use every trick in his arsenal to haggle a deal, but it's not even that hard. The guy seems wholly uninterested in this alleged business, and Lee is annoying and persistent, so he ends up getting them for a price that, while painful, won't leave him destitute. When he leaves the shop, earrings tucked carefully into his pocket, he feels lighter than he has in days.

George's birthday comes and they sleep in, then fuck a few times and sleep some more. Lee makes them a late lunch and then tells George that he needs to go run a few errands before they go to dinner, but there's an obvious twinkle in his eye. He leaves George's apartment and goes to his own where he's left all the supplies, and then goes and sets everything up before heading back toward George's building, texting him and telling him to come downstairs, even as he parks and gets out to go meet him by the elevators in the lobby.

He's nervous, but he thinks that this might actually go well. He might actually pull it off.
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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-08-31 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)

George shifts, sitting up and tugging the blanket down low enough that Lee is naked from shoulders to knee. He frames a shot and takes the photo, making sure that all of the bruises and lurid bite marks on Lee's pale skin are clear, and then he lies back down, holding the phone where Lee can see it.

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-08-31 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)

"Yes?" asks George, his dark eyes studying his face as he studies the photo on the phone's screen. He tilts his head, fingers idly brushing the already scabbed scrapes on his chest. "How much?"

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-08-31 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)

He feels the way that Lee's hips shifts, suspects that he knows what's caused it.

"I love them," he says. "Knowing you left them there."

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-08-31 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)

It's possibly the most romantic thing that anyone's ever said to him. He groans, leaning into the kiss, his hips rocking back to press his hips into Lee's hand.

"I love that," he says. "The thought of that."

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-08-31 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)

George hums contentedly into the kiss, his fingers coming up to brush along the sharp line of Lee's jaw.

"Would you fuck me?" he asks. "Or do you want me to fuck you?"

Either way, it's something he wants.

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-08-31 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)

"Slow's fine," says George, sprawled on his back with a knee bent on either side of Lee to cradle his hips and a hand on either side of his head. "Lovely, even."

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-08-31 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)

It's slow, almost lazy, and it's exactly what George wants, right then. He rolls his hips, enjoying the sensation of Lee's finger inside him, lifting his head to look for another kiss.

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-09-01 05:05 am (UTC)(link)

Lee presses his cock into him, one slow inch at a time and George moans softly, his head falling back. It isn't the first time they've had sex like this, both of them barely awake. Somehow, it always feels so different.

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-09-01 05:50 am (UTC)(link)

"Not as good as you," says George, certain that that's the case. He lifts one leg, hooking it around Lee's thigh, one hand dropping to squeeze his arse. "Nobody's ever fucked me like you do."

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-09-01 06:26 am (UTC)(link)

it's so easy to fall into a rhythm like this -- rise and fall, the tangle of their mouths, the rock of their hips. George isn't lying -- it's never felt quite like this. His free hand comes up to tangle in Lee's hair, the other still squeezing his bruised arse.

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-09-01 07:35 am (UTC)(link)

Like everyone when he was born, George had always had a hope but he'd thought it less and less likely, the older he got. Lying here like this, fucking like this, he can't help but think it doesn't matter.

"Fuck heaven," he says. "If I've got you."

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[personal profile] gallowseyes 2025-09-01 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)

George honestly can't remember the last time he looked at someone else and thought about fucking them. It's just something that doesn't occur to him anymore, because of Lee. That, in and of itself, is a marvel.

"That feels good," he mumurs. "Keep doing that."

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